Grant Bayldon, the Executive Director, says they want get the New Zealand Government to double the refugee intake.

“The Government is due to set the numbers for the next three years, next year, so we know it’s under review,” he says.

Currently New Zealand accepts 750 people a year and another 50 are accepted as asylum seekers and then claim refugee status.

He says this is a tiny number compared to total immigration which is close to 50,000 people annually

“New Zealand can’t expect other countries to step up, countries that are on the border of conflict zones to keep their borders open, if New Zealand isn’t prepared to do their fair share,” Grant Bayldon says.

New Zealand currently ranks 87th in the world when it comes to refugee intake.

“There really is no other indicator that New Zealand would accept being 87th on anything else, we wouldn’t accept it for education and we shouldn’t accept it for refugees,” he says.

All the photos taken at various photo action events will be put into a book to be given to the Minister of Immigration, Michael Woodhouse.